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  Invited Lectures and Conferences (selected)  
     
  Conferences/Workshops  
     
  2006  
     
 
Extraction and characterization of fossil protein from bone and teeth. EFCHED end of project meeting, British Museum, London (with M. Collins, C. Nielsen-Marsh, C. Smith,  and G. Taylor).
Radiocarbon dating and dietary stable isotope analysis of Kwaday Dän Ts’inchí. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico (with S. Greer, L. Corr, O. Beattie, A. Mackie, R. Evershed, A. von Finister, and J. Southon)
Isotopic evidence for European Upper Palaeolithic diets. The Evolution of Hominid Diets:  Integrating approaches to the study of Palaeolithic subsistence. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Co-organiser (with A. Papathanasiou) of the session ‘Stable Isotopes in Greece’ at the 16th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Santorini, Greece.
 
     
 
 
     
  2005  
     
 
The Evolution of Human Diets, Diet and Human Evolution:
What are the health implications for the 21st century?
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, Nutrition Society of Australia (Invited contributions).
Dietary shifts across the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean: the stable isotope evidence. Meso 2005, Belfast (with E. Garcia-Guixe and G. Goude)
Diet shifts across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in north-west Europe. Going Over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-west Europe. Cardiff University, Wales. (Invited contribution)
Biomolecular evidence of hominid diets. The Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe. Quaternary Research Association Annual Discussion Meeting. British Museum, London. (Invited contribution)
 
     
 
 
     
  2004  
     
 
Stable Isotopes. Workshop: Surviving the Ice Age. Department of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. (Invited contribution)
Isotopes in Archaeology: Refining the Dietary Evidence and Building life Histories. Workshop: Isotopes and Archaeology. Department of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. (Invited contribution)
Stable isotope mass spectrometry in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology. German Mass Spectrometry Society (DGMS) conference, Leipzig, Germany (Invited contribution).
Determining diet using oxygen isotope ratios of bone and tooth apatite (with V. Grimes). Biomolecular Archaeology Symposium, Amsterdam.
A novel marine dietary indicator utilising compound-specific bone collagen
amino acid ?13C measurements of ancient humans (with L. Corr, J. Sealy, and R.P. Evershed). Biomolecular Archaeology Symposium, Amsterdam
 
     
 
 
     
  2003  
     
 
Reconstructing past human and animal diets using stable isotopes. British Museum, London (Invited contribution).
Hominid dietary evolution-direct evidence from stable isotopes. Guts, brains, food and the social life of early humans, Workshop. Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Invited contribution).
Diet and migration in the European Neolithic: a review of the biomolecular evidence. Scotland in Ancient Europe. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, U.K. (Invited contribution)
Stable isotope analysis of hair from Siberian woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius). UK Archaeological Sciences 2003, Oxford, U.K. (Invited contribution). With S. Parfitt.
 
     
 
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  2002  
     
 
Stable isotope analysis reflect gender and status differences in diets at a number of European archaeological sites. Intercongress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited contribution).
Direct evidence of diet via analysis of bone, section on ‘Human Diet’ at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, Leicester. (Invited contribution). With G. Müldner.
Stable isotope evidence of Sus diets from European and Near Eastern archaeological sites. International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), Durham.
The evolution of human diet: New insights from stable isotope analysis. Paleontological and Archaeological Insights into Human Evolution. Symposium organized by the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (Invited contribution).
Isotope Analysis of Minoan and Mycenaean Diets. Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of their time, new work and new discoveries, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. (Invited contribution) With R. Hedges and E. Vika.
Group diets distinguished through isotope analysis of human remains. Oxford diet group, Oxford.
 
     
 
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  2001  
     
 
Sulphur isotopes in ancient bone collagen. Sixth Advanced Seminar on Paleodiet, University of California, Santa Cruz, California. (Invited Contribution).
New Scientific Evidence of Ancient Diet in the Mediterranean. American Academy in Rome. (Invited Contribution).
Morphological change and subsistence in hominid evolution. British Association of Biological Anthropology, Durham. (Invited Contribution).
Stable carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope evidence of human mobility in prehistoric Europe. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. (Invited Contribution).
 
     
 
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  2000  
     
 
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values in bone collagen from Europe, 0-40 ka: Implications for climatic and palaeodietary research. Goldschmidt 2000: An international conference for geochemistry. Oxford (Invited contribution).
A new look at the stable isotope evidence for the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in coastal Europe. Sixth International Congress on the Mesolithic, University of Stockholm.
Archaeological evidence of past subsistence. Ernährungsforum 2000: Fleischverzehr: Evolution und Fortschritt. Hamburg, Germany (Invited Contribution).
Direct evidence of subsistence from human remains: the potential of stable isotope analyses to provide new data on diet in the Predynastic and early Dynastic periods. The Bioarchaeological Heritage of Egypt: Early Egyptian human remains: Retrieval, Conservation and Analysis. North Sinai Research Centre, Qantara, Egypt. (Invited contribution).
The diversity of Neolithic diets. Food, Identity and Culture in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, Prehistoric Society/Sheffield University Archaeology Society. (Invited contribution).
The Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition in Denmark: New stable isotope data. Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting, Philadelphia. (With T.D. Price).
New stable isotope evidence for human diet in the British Upper Palaeolithic. Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Day Meeting, British Museum, London.
 
     
 
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  1999  
     
 
Stable isotope studies of humans and fauna from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey: some intriguing and puzzling results. Archaeological Sciences 99, University of Bristol.
Political animals: the role of food in colonisation. Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting, Cardiff, U.K. (Invited contribution).
Stable isotope evidence for subsistence, animal domestication, and age of weaning at the Çatalhöyük site, Turkey. Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting, Chicago.
 
     
 
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  1998  
     
 
Uncovering sex and status differences in past diets using bone stable isotope analysis. UK Diet Research Group, Somerville College, Oxford. (Invited contribution).
Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic: direct evidence from bone stable isotopes. Neolithic Studies Group meeting, Society of Antiquaries, London. (Invited contribution).
Subsistence and Seasonality: evidence from stable isotope analysis. Current Research on the British and Irish Mesolithic, University of Leicester (with R. Schulting)
Stable isotope analysis in archaeology: a tool for reconstructing past human subsistence. Association for Environmental Archaeology Easter meeting, University of Southampton. (Invited contribution).
Isotope analysis of humans from prehistoric sites reveals dietary differences related to burial context. Prehistoric Society day conference on mortuary practices, University of Southampton. (Invited contribution).
 
     
 
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  1997  
     
 
Variation in human ?13C and ?15N collagen values in prehistoric Europe. 5th Advanced Seminar on Palaeodiet, Valbonne, France. (Invited contribution).
Using human bones to reconstruct diet: examples from British prehistory. Food in Prehistory conference of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food, Oxford Brookes University. (Invited contribution).
Reconstructing past human diet in Europe using bone stable isotopes. Archéométrie 97 conference of the Groupe des Méthodes Pluridisciplinaires Contribuant à l’Archéologie, Rennes, France. (Invited contribution).
 
     
 
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  1996  
     
 
The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe; the stable isotope evidence. Neolithic Studies Group meeting at the British Museum, London.
A review and critique of Upper Pleistocene dating methods. Theoretical Archaeology Group annual conference, Liverpool, U.K. (Invited contribution).
Stable isotopes and diet. Food and Archaeology seminar series at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. (with G.J van Klinken)
 
     
  1995  
     
 
A survey of European human bone stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values. Archaeological Sciences 1995, Liverpool, U.K. (With G.J van Klinken)
 
     
  1992  
     
 
Thermoluminescence dating of fire-cracked rock. 45th Annual Northwest Anthropology Conference, Burnaby, B.C. Canada.
 
     
 
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  Invited Talks at University Departments  
     
 
2005 Reconstructing past human diets using stable isotope analysis. Archaeometry group, Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
2005 Reconstructing past human diets using stable isotope analysis. Department of Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
2005 Reconstructing primate diets using stable isotope analysis. Primate Research Centre, Inuyama, Japan
2005 Reconstructing past human diets using stable isotope analysis. Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute, Nara, Japan.
2005 Reconstructing past human diets using stable isotope analysis. Institute of History and Anthropology, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
2004 Isotope evidence for European Palaeolithic diets. Department of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
2004 Diet shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe? The stable isotope evidence., Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.
2003 Diet shifts across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe. Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, UK.
2003 Sulphur isotopes in archaeology. Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
2002 New evidence for human diet in the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in Europe. Department of Archaeology, University of Mainz, Germany.
2002 New Palaeodietary Evidence from the Mediterranean, from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, UK.
2001 Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Subsistence. Department of Archaeology, University of Cork, Ireland, and Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, UK.
2001 Ancient Diet in the Mediterranean. Greek Archaeology Group, University of Oxford, UK
2000 Recent Studies of Prehistoric Diet. Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK.
2000 Stable isotopes and diet reconstruction. Department of Molecular Biology, UMIST, UK.
2000 Neanderthal and Anatomically Modern Human diets as reflected in stable isotope values. Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK.
2000 Determining human diets in the past; examples from Neolithic Catalhöyük, the Bronze Age Aegean, and Roman Britain. Graduate archaeology seminar, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.
1998/9 Are you what you eat? Reconstructing past human diets using bone stable isotopes. Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and Simon Fraser University, Canada.
1994 Luminescence dating of the Diring Yuriakh site (Siberia). Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford, UK.
 
     
 
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  Organised Sessions/Conferences  
     
 
2002 Organiser/chair for day session on ‘Evidence for group diets’, Oxford Diet Group, Oxford
2002 Co-organiser of ‘Recent advances in the analysis and interpretation of animal diet and management’ at the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), Durham (with I. Mainland).
2001 Organiser/Chair for the ‘Food and Nutrition’ session at Archaeological Sciences 2001, Newcastle.
2000 Organiser/Chair for the three-day conference Minoans and Mycenaeans, flavours of their times: New evidence of diet and health in the Aegean Bronze Age. University of Bradford.
1999 Organiser of the interdisciplinary Subsistence Research Group seminar series, Simon Fraser University.
1995 Organiser, graduate seminar series for the Graduate Archaeology Oxford (the Graduate student society).
 
     
 
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